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Monday, 29 August 2016

How setup backup and restore conversations on WhatsApp

WhatsApphas
become a universal communication app: several billion messages are sent
every day through its services. After a short time, you can easily
accumulate a ton of archived sentimental messages that you’ll either
want to make sure to keep and save. However, with phones being lost,
stolen, breaking, or some random freak of nature causing WhatsApp to
lose your messages, it is advisable to make sure you back up on your own
every so often. We’ll show you how.

1. Backup your

WhatsApp conversations

Open WhatsApp from your App drawer

Press on the 3-dot menu icon on the top right

Tap on Settings, this will open the WhatsApp settings

Tap on Chat settings

Now, tap on Backup conversations to backup all the present messages

2. Extract WhatsApp backup database file

for future restore

Connect your device to PC via USB cable

Open the device’s storage

In the root of the device’s storage, you will find a folder labelled WhatsApp, double click it open.

Now, go to the Databases folder

You will find all the backup database (db) files

Find the one with the latest date i.e today’s date when you have backed up

Copy that file, as in my case it is msgstore-2014-03-24.1.db.crypt5 to a secure location on your PC

You can now disconnect the device

Now, if unfortunately you lose your messages and also your database file from your storage, you can put back the saved database file into WhatsApp > Databases folder. Re-install the App and you will again be allowed to restore your messages